1. L4L - Learning 4 Life with the AASL Standards
Texas L4L Implementation Team
Sharon Amastae
Suzanne Lyons
Judi Moreillon
Texas Library Association
Annual Conference
April 2010
Warm up context exercise – debrief – shared visions
New York L4L Coordinator
Sara Kelly Johns

2. Standards for the 21st Century Learner
When we talk about standards the words we use describe our expectations for learning … what I don’t se… 20 bks/stu, 3000 sq ft… etc.

3. 2007: Standards for the 21st-Century Learner
1988: Information Power:
Guidelines for School Library Media Programs
1998: Information Power:
Building Partnerships for Learning
2007: Standards for the 21st-Century Learner
L4L uses a three-pronged approach to assist schools to reconsider learning standards and help position personnel and programs to create flexible learning environments and provide appropriate resources, and instructional strategies that are research and evidence-based.
Standards for the 21st Century Learner, Standards in Action and Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs, provide the framework that enables schools to assess where they are and where they need to go to best serve the needs of their students and ensure that they learn how to learn in order to make formal education relevant as they acquire skills and competencies that serve them for a lifetime. 3

4. Standards for the 21st Century Learner
Released in October An “evolution” of the nine Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning (ch. 2 of Information Power)
Connections to ISTE-NETS and Partnership for 21st Century ICT Skills

5. What is L4L?
introduce the learning standards and guidelines to internal and external audiences
build awareness
create a shared vision of our purpose (in 21st-century education); and what school library media programs are expected to deliver 5

6. Who are we?

7. Think
THINK - about your role as: Leader, Instructional Partner, Information Specialist, Teacher, Program Administrator
Self assess using job description; give yourself +, -

8. Think
Pic of job desc

9. Grow
as an Instructional Partner
Standards Integration Puzzle

10. Standards Integration Puzzle
Sit in groups of four or five.
Shuffle and deal the puzzle parts.
Take turns reading the 6th-grade ELAR TEKS puzzle pieces.
Determine keyword or keywords in the TEKS.
Discuss as a group which TEKS is compatible with an L4L standard
Place the piece on the board under that L4L standard indicator

11. K-12 ELAR TEKS: AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner Alignment Wiki

12. 6th Grade TEKS Alignment

13. Current Contributors

14. Create CREATE – elevator speech
Leader, instructional partner, information specialist
Align librarian contributions to audience needs

15. Elevator Speech Prompt
Audience: Teacher
Mrs. Robin, a 5th grade teacher, is bringing her class in to do research on the states. Each student has been assigned a different state to research. She has provided a worksheet for each student to fill in basic facts about the state. This is an assignment she has used for many years. She assigns the students states in alphabetical order: Alabama, Arkansas, etc. Sadly, no one has studied Wyoming in a number of years.

16. Share Share speeches Wear ribbons and buttons
Share message of standards; use the vocabulary of common beliefs

17. Resources
Job description:
"SAMPLE JOB DESCRIPTION: School Library Media Specialist." Knowledge Quest 38.2 (2009): Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 10 Apr
TEKS Alignment wiki:
Texas L4L Coordinators:
Sharon Amastae:
Suzanne Lyons:
Judi Moreillon: